Catering to those who demand great GPU performance for a modest price, NVIDIA has launched its $130 GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Compared to the GTS 450 which it replaces, the GTX 550 Ti delivers faster performance, a beefier memory bus and what NVIDIA touts as being one of the best performance per watt ratios around.

I noticed that also, and it doesn't make an ounce of sense. I don't think our current method of measuring power is ideal, but it's been made a lot tougher with the power scheme improvements on both AMD's and NVIDIA's latest cards. We're going to be updating our entire GPU suite soon, and will figure out a better solution at that time.